As the nineteenth century began to wind down, the residents of Minneapolis and St. Paul became...
Twin Cities Area
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery and Wurstery is located near the Mississippi River in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
The Swinford Townhomes
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Robbinsdale Library
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Saint Paul Hotel
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Landmark Center In St Paul
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Swinford Apartments
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
The Gates of Stonebridge
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Eight Days in May Protests
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Greater Minnesota
Florence Town Hall
Florence Town Hall is located along Highway 61 in Frontenac Station. The land to build the town...
Green Lake Mounds
I love it when counties place markers at their historic sites! I always stop to see what little...
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Ruins of Sawyer School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Finding The Past In Swatara
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Bend in the River Regional Park
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Red Wing Iron Works
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Hollywood Town Hall
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Little Falls Depot
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Endion Depot In Duluth
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Welcome to Hanska
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Almond White and the Motley Castle
The End of the Line in Currie
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
Lost Highway 61
Remembering Quadna Resort
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
District 6 School in New Sweden
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Exploring Sandstone
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Moderne New Ulm Library
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Welcome To Dotson
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
The Old School In Wolverton
Historic Franconia
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Meyer School In St Augusta
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Le Sueur Theater
The Almelund Creamery
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
The Little Marais Inn
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Enter Marlon Brando
Endion School In Duluth
Hanover Bridge
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Church of the Holy Cross
Historic Wasioja
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Taylor House In Le Sueur
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
Welcome To Old Wadena
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
District 48 School Near Delano
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Welcome To Cobden
Old Brewery In Preston
State Theater In Hutchinson
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
The Milford Monument
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Jordan Brewery Complex
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Visiting Golden Gate
Moving Old Hibbing
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdinger’s grist mill in the...
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
If you’re here because you followed Forgotten Minnesota, you already know this. But in case you’re...
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Chester Township Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Maple Hill Cemetery
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Chippewa City Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Veda Ponikvar was born in Chisholm in 1919 to Slovenian immigrants who worked in the mines that...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesota’s biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
Winter At The Lamar School
It’s clear that the schoolhouse in Lamar, WI is a place of pride for the community. It has become a...
The First Modern Hospital In Wahpeton
The Birthplace Of Laura Ingalls Near Pepin
Caddie Woodlawn Park Near Menomonie
Watts Free Library In Leonard
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
The Carnegie Library In Milbank
Discovering Wisconsin Point
S.S. Meteor In Superior
Visiting The Old Warehouses In Superior
Welcome to Heaton
Cushing Land Agency In St. Croix Falls
Ringling Brothers Circus Memorial In Wahpeton
Carnegie Library In Watertown
Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church In Wilton
Discovering The Lake Superior Mill
Abandoned Mill Near Arcadia
Article Archive
Edward and Sadie Gale Mansion in Minneapolis
Henry and Lucy Myers House in Duluth
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan...
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City